Those ice-cream containers are used in every NZ garage. As someone that used to work at Tip-top, I approve of this container-based approach.
Shitbowl: The algorithmically powered in-home physical caching platform
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#122I thought this was a last-in-first-out stack?
It's actually a self-organizing list with the move-to-front method:
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#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
On the flip side this is a real process that essentially works. The book "Algorithms to Love By" decides a chapter to solutions to meat space retrieval problems.
I’m pretty sure you mean “Algorithms to _Live_ By”- but I love the typo, since one anecdotes involves using CS/mathematical principles (secretary problem) to find an optimal romantic partner. Enjoyable read for sure!
ATLB is such an awesome book.
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh no! The Internet is more easily accessible providing more knowledge and access to millions worldwide! It's not limited to our extremely exclusive clique of 1337 hackers who also all happen to be white, college-educated American men!
You could have, you know, all that good stuff also without Facebook.
arguably more easily, since a primary outcome of facebook seems to be to make white college educated american men angry at everyone else
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#125The idea is pretty good, but misses the mark.
Bitcoin has shown that decentralization is a bad idea. What people actually want is Sharebowl: a single bowl, the size of oregon, that you can trust to keep your valuables safe.
We plan an ICO by 2022, IPO by 2023, and IBS[1] by next week.
[1] https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/irritable-bow...
Re: Shitbowl: The algorithmically powered in-home physical caching platform
#126if you're going to name it that, surely you'd have to flush the cache after every input
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#127Why is the HN article title obscured with "*"? Does HN have a forbidden words policy?
It’s especially hilarious because the same word is right there in the URL.
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
Laundry pile needs random access!
I don't care about that as long as it efficiently handles the worst-case of the sock tuple matching problem.
I just implemented a proper cache for unmatched socks this morning! I just got a dresser and dedicated one drawer to socks embedded in a plastic hexagon matrix, with an area on one side for unmatched socks awaiting the re-appearance of their mate on some future laundry day.
It is a slow process but it is very low energy.